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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICEQ ELIAS M. WALKER, OF GALLATIN, MISSOURI.

WASHING-MACH-INE.

SPEGIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 227,140, date. May 4, 1880. Application.filed Februmy '7 1880.

T0 all whom 'it mag; concem Be in knowu that I, ELIAS M. WALKER, citizen 0f the United Staates, residing at Gallatin, inthe county of Davies and Staate of Missouri, have invented certain new and usefnl Improvements in Washing-Machines; und I d0 hereby declnre the following 130 be a full, dem,

und exact description of the invention, such.

as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and nse the szune, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and t0 letters 01 figures 0f reference m2uked thereon, which fonn a p2ut 0f this specification.

This invention Das, for its object the ecoriomy 0f material 2md space m1d the effieieney, simplicity, and eheapness of construction 0f machines for washing clothes.

The invention consists in forming 13110 fra1ne of a washin g-machineof two inverted-V-shaped sides conneeted by suitable braces below and by a. broad top mil, with which is combined a tub suspendd from arms on the side pieces by mezms of hangers, said tub being provided with roller-handles, (und operating in connection With a perfora-ted platte 01 b0md suspended from the at'oresaid top rai1.

In ehe dmwings illustratiug my invention, in the sevem1 figures of whieh like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is a side elevation 0f my machine. Fig. 2 is a top-plan view. Fig. 3 is a similar view 0f another form; Fig. 4, a central vertical cross-section 011 the plane of the 1ine x x of Fig. 8. Fig. 5 is a perspective view 0f the slatted rack used in the tub. Fig. 6 is a perspective view 0f the perforated plate er board t0 be suspended in the tub; and Fig. 7 is a bottom view, showing wedges placed between ehe body of the machine and hoops around the same, f01 the purpose 0f tighteuing the tub.

The sides 0r end pieces of my fr2une a-re composed 0f inverted-V-shapecl frames counected by braces B B below zu1d by a crossmil, O, at the top.

D is a tub 0f wood 01 metal, suspended between the sides A A by means 0f hangers a, a 011 each side 0f the suds-box, dependihg f1om anns Z), attached t0 the t0ps of the said frmnes or sides. Tl1is tub is provided With handles c, roller-handles being preferred, by whieh the operator is epabled t-0 pul1 Q1 push the t-ub in one 01 both directions only, and allow it by gravity t0 swing in the opposite direction.

The length of the hangers a being fixed, the tub a-s it is swung will necessarily hzwe a rising-ztnd-falling moti0n in the am 0f a, circ1e, whieh will i1npart a measure 0f agitation within the tub that will facilitate the washing, und this will be enhanced by the sudden stopping and reversal of the t ubs motion by the limit 0f oscillation fixedly by the length 0f the 112m gers.

'Ihe tub is provided 011 0ne o1 both 0f its sides wit-h a slatted rack, gl, und when used on both sides 11w0 persons may use the maehine at 'he szune time, 0ne 011 eaeh side.

From the t0p rail, O, depends a perforated plate or boaxd, E, extending in the tub nearly '00 its bottom. 'lhe clothes 130 be washed are placed in the tub between this platte and the slatted rack, and water being poured i1'1t0 said tub, the tub is set in motion, and the movement thereof and that of the clothes will ca-use the water to flow back and forth in the taub,-

and its eontaet With the slatted racks und its passage through the perforated plate 0x board E will vio1ently agitate it, causing the clothes t0 be dashed against the racks, and pressed. 01 squeezed between them and the plate 0r board, whereby tl1e dirt is speedily removed. As the tub is dmwn awa yfrom the perforated board E it draws the clothes 2uvay fron1 ehe bottom of said board-while at the t0p tl1ey fall toward the board.

It it is desired togive to the tub more 0f a tilting motion than is pennitted when the hangers depeud perpendicularly, aus shown in ful1 lines in the drawings, the hangers can be removed from the holes near the end of arms b and inserted in the holes made in tl1e arms near to cross-rail O. It will laben be found that the hangers will have the inclination from the cross-rgmil to the bottom 0f the tub shown by dotted 1ines in Fig. 4:, zmd that the tub will tilt more than when suspended, zus shown by ful1 lines.

lt frequently happens that the boards 0f which tl1e tubs are connnonly made sh1ink, and tl1en the tubs leak, unless there is provided some means for tightening the boards. I. therefore eneirele the body 0f the tub with a, series 0f hoops,]3 made 0f ordinary hoop-iron,

and drive wedges G in between said hoops ancl the body ofthe tub. 'Ihe iuc1ines 0f Ehe wedges come together, as shown in Fig. 7 and when the boards shrink, und openings am thereby formed, the Wedges are driven in fro1 n the ends, whereby the boards am tightenerl a.nd leaks stopped.

Other devices than the peforated platze 0r board and the slatted racks may be used, and I am aware that these devices 2md the 1nethod 0f their operation zue not; new.

I am also zuvare filmt it is n0t broadly new t0 make a framing with ixwerted-V-shaped sides connected at top 2L[1(1 bottom.

I prefer t0 make the perf'omted plate 01 board and be hangers detachable.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1s l. In 2b washing-machine, an oseillating taub, in combination With double hangers a and frzune A, hzwing arms b, substantially as described.

2. In a \mshiugmachine, the combination 0f the tub, encircling-hoops, und int-emnediate wedges, f0r the purpose sei; forth.

In testimony whereof I affix niy signature in presence 0f tw0 wituesses.

ELIAS M. WALKER.

VVitnesses (J. E. ENGLISH, S. J. VVALKER. 

